Game device.



No. 700,887. Patented May 27, I902.

a. r. BARRON.

' GAME-DEVICE.

(Application filed Jan. 22, 1902.)

(No Model.)

flttesf: Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. BARRON, OF PALMYRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-FOURTH TO FRANK HOLWAY, OF PALMYRA, NEW YORK.

GAME DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,887, dated May 27, 190 2. Application filed January 22, 1902. Serial No. 90,839. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. BARRON, of Palmyra, in the county of WVayne and State of New York, have invented a new and useful 5 Improvement in Game Devices, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a puzzle or game device IO comprising a series of differently colored spheres, as marbles, and rectangular inclosing box-shape case or body with inner apartment for receiving the marbles, the same being hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims. 7

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan of the inclosing case or body with the cover mainly broken away, showing the interior thereof. Fig. 2 is an edge view seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig. 1, parts being broken away, the section being as on the'dotted line at the point of said arrow. Fig. 3 is a plan of the inner face of the cover, partly broken away. Fig. 4 is a transverse section near the rear end of the case, taken as on the dotted line 4 4; in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A is the inclosing case or body of the device, it being box shape and rectangular, about twice as long as wide and having an inclosing cover B.

a represents the spheres or marbles, being of equal diameterand seven (more or less) in number, the interior depth of the body or case being slightly more than the diameters of the marbles, the latter being adapted to roll freely upon the even floor of the case.

C is an interior longitudinal chamber or apartment in which to receive the marbles, as indicated by dotted circles, said apartment being closed at one end and open at the other, as shown in Fig. 1. This apartment is atthe middle of the case A as regards the two sides of the latter, but nearer to the forward than the rear end of the case, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. This apartment is rectangular, having its sides or walls parallel with the walls of the body or case and its internal length about equal to the combined diameters of all the marbles. Both the body A and the inner 5o apartment O are longer than wide, the walls of both being preferably substantially equal in height, there being space all around said apartment for the marbles to freely roll, as shown.

In using the device the case A is held in a horizontal position in one or both hands of the player, the rear end D being nearest him. The marbles are placed in the case haphazard, or without care, the case being slightly tilted or rocked by the player in a manner to cause the marbles to roll about and enter the open position to close the open end ofthe' apartment O, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, when the cover is placed upon the case A. This block or stopper for the apartment serves to confine the marbles previously placed therein, and so prevents them from noisily rolling-about when the device is being carried or handled with the cover in place thereon.

'When the cover is on the body or case, it is supported at the middle against inward pressure by the walls of the inner apartment, which being equal in height with the outer walls meet the inner face of the cover and sustain it.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A game device comprising a hollow rectangular body or inclosing case with plain 9o floor or bottom, having a rectangular apartment substantially central within the body, with a space around all sides thereof, said apartment being open at one end and closed at the other with the closed end nearer the end of the case than its open end and spheres, as marbles, in the body adapted to roll around and within said inner apartment, the spheres or marbles being of difierent colors, and a table of said colors with the body, substantially as shown and described.

2. A rectangular case having substantially central longitudinal apartment open at one end, a plurality of spheres in said apartment and a cover for said case having upon its under side a depending block disposed at its longitudinal centerand adapted when the cover is in place to coincide with and close the open end of said apartment, substantially as shown I and described.

3. A game device comprising a hollow rectangular body longer than Wide, a rectangular apartment longer than wide formed longitudinally within the body with its sides iniperforate and parallel with the sides of the body, said apartment being closed at one end and open at the other with its end wall imperforate, there being space all around the inner apartment, the walls of the latter and of the body being equal in height, and a series of spheres adapted-to roll upon the floor of the body, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 17th day of January, 1902, in the presence of two subscribing WiIQHSSSGS."

GEORGE F. BARRON.

lVitnesses:

CHARLES WV. HURLBUT, GEO. KENT. 

